PH 201L - General Physics I Lab

1 Credit(s)

Prerequisite(s): WR 115 or designated placement, and MTH 112Z or designated placement.

Corequisite(s): PH 201, PH 201R

Course Description: This is the first term of a three-term algebra-based physics course. Conservation laws and Newtonian mechanics are covered. This includes but is not limited to force and motion, forms of energy (including kinetic potential and various types of internal energy such as rotational, thermal and latent), conservation of momentum, conservation of angular momentum, conservation of energy, Newton’s laws, kinematics, free-body diagrams, net force equations, torque and orbital mechanics. Students must enroll in lecture, laboratory and recitation sections. All three sections are required.

Course Level: Lower Division Collegiate

Course Learning Outcomes:

CLO#1: Apply conservation laws in physics (momentum, angular momentum, energy).
CLO#2: Apply Newton’s laws (inertia, force, mass, acceleration, action, reaction).
CLO#3: Interpret laboratory data to draw conclusions about general physics experiments. (ILO: Critical Thinking)